The Secret to a Perfect Fantasy Story

So, what do you think the secret is to making the perfect fantasy story?

Do you think it involves wizards? Elves? Orcs? Something original, perhaps, like cenobites or cock demons?

Well, when we talk about stories, these nouns (or pronouns if you swing that way) don't really mean anything. They are just puppets for the god hand to fiddle with as they flop across the stage. The real value to a story isn't with what is featured within it, but what the story means.

The THEME is the most important aspect in ANY story.

That's a given, right? The theme is meant to be the main reason why we write a story. Nowadays, most themes consist around the idea that white people are evil or some minority is oppressed. But even then, that kind of idea doesn't make the story in the area of "perfect".

Instead, what can make a story "perfect" is how much philosophical ground it can cover in the shortest amount of time, with the maximum amount of enjoyment.

Think of all the stories you cherish and that stay in your head. Filter everything out and leave in only the fantasy ones. What are they? They are mostly fairy tales, right?

You may not know this, but a fairy tale is the ultimate story you can tell to anyone. But to make it perfect, you must combine several types of fairy tales into one story. How do you decide which ones to combine? The key is to forget about nouns, adjectives, settings, and pretty much everything that makes a story rememberable and unique. Forget everything other than the bare basic bones of what the story consists of.

What you're left with is a part of what we call "The 7 Types of Stories".

When you write a story, you are actually elaborating and complicating a scenario that goes over one or several of the seven types of stories. These types are:

-Overcoming the monster

-Rebirth

-Quest

-Journey and return

-Rags to riches

-Tragedy

-Comedy

Now, when you think of any story from modern day, you usually see at least a moment or two of each of these. There's comic relief, there's a journey, there's a person changing, there's a final boss. Nearly every classic movie or game we know of where people praise the story, we have these things featured, especially in games.

You can take a game like Prince of Persia: Warrior Within and find all of these archetypes.

-The prince has the Dahaka as the monster, who tries to eat his ass across the world

-He is reborn as a Sandwraith, and needs to learn how to avoid water

-He takes a quest to the island of time to change his fate

-He comes back home with a hot bitch after smashing her sandy cervix

-He returns to his riches of being a prince after being a homeless person for months

-When he returns, his town is attacked by kanake, leaving room for a sequel

-And you get to hilariously beat the shit out of birds with a stick

And might I add the artwork of the game is gorgeous

This game has everything, and it's just hours of hacking and slashing your way through fighting rings of enemies. But, of course, I had to really reach for the last one. Comedy is not the main thing of the game, because it's meant to be this edgy "I watch the Crow in my mom's basement and have a tentacle hentai poster" kind of game. But I think instead of comedy, for a story to be perfect, it just has to be entertaining. Entrancing. It has to make the person listen and pay attention and keep that attention until the last bit.

If a story can keep the person's attention until the end, then the story was worthwhile. The person was able to get the message and enjoy themselves during. I think that's more important than anything else, and when something is short, it's able to be enjoyed quickly and to the point.

I'm sorry if this article started to sound like a Warrior Within review, but my point is that even a simple story can be considered a perfect one. We don't need these massive, thousand page, 20 season long, 5 million books worth of story to tell a simple tale of how someone overcame a monster. I think once a story goes over like maybe 100 pages, then it's trying to fluff itself up too much. It's making itself more important than what it really is. I'm not saying one story with one character, I mean like one message, one point in the story.

You ever see that in anime when they take up a whole season to have almost nothing happen, like in Dragon Ball Z? I'm talking about that. That stuff is what we should avoid, unless there's actually a point to it. I don't know, I've never seen Dragon Ball Z. I only know what I've seen from memes and I think it looks great.

I still can't find the season when Shaggy is introduced

You know, Dragon Ball Z is based off of the old Buddhist tale of Journey to the West, which is a well known yellow person fairy tale. And this is another reason why fairy tales are timeless. We constantly have to look back at them and try to one up them, like we have something to prove. China had the "four great novels":

-Journey to the West

-Romance of the Three Kingdoms

-Water Margin

-Dream of the Red Chamber

These stories are timeless classics, and they cover the 7 basic types of stories when combined, but then there's is another thing they cover. Journey to the West is a personal quest, Romance of the Three Kingdoms is about a country, Water margin is about a group of outlaws, and Dream of the Red Chamber is almost about the psychology of a society.

So these four go over: personal, political, criminal, and psychological.

If you combine the 7 types of stories with the 4 types of classics, you will, in fact, come out with the perfect fantasy story.

Key example: Dragon Age Origins.

This game has all of those. If you want to see how a perfect fantasy story goes about, just see how Dragon Age Origins plays out, and you'll see what I mean. Just read the lore on the wiki page and you'll be spending hours enjoying yourself just by learning about its history, let alone playing the game.

I don't want this to feel like a cop-out answer to end all questions about the subject, but truly, the best way to make your fantasy story as perfect as possible, you'll need to feature the 7 BASIC TYPES OF STORIES with the 4 TYPES OF CLASSICS.

Now, for the real challenge: Actually doing it, and doing it well.

Good luck out there, everyone. And feel free to ask questions. I'm going to give more advice about writing, and I'll try to do it weekly or even daily. But for sure, it will be done gayly.

Enjoy yourself and eat pussy.